arXiv research

The paper examines the stability of two spherical self-similar solutions in Minkowski spacetime.

Formally constructs metrics near timelike geodesics in vacuum spacetimes.

Rigidity results for hypersurfaces in warped spacetimes.

Let E be the Engel group and D be a rank 2 bracket generating left invariant distribution with a Lorentzian metric, which is a nondegenerate metric of index 1. In this paper, we first prove that timelike normal extremals are locally maximizing. Second, we obtain a parametrization of timelike, spacelike, lightlike norma…

Sharp inequality for Lorentzian spaces with timelike Ricci bounds.

Study timelike bounce in charged null dust collapse, identifying key surfaces.

We consider spacetimes with compact Cauchy hypersurfaces and with Ricci tensor bounded from below on the set of timelike unit vectors, and prove that the results known for spacetimes satisfying the timelike convergence condition, namely, foliation by CMC hypersurfaces, are also valid in the present situation, if corres…

There are three types of hypersurfaces in a pseudoconformal space C^n_1 of Lorentzian signature: spacelike, timelike, and lightlike. These three types of hypersurfaces are considered in parallel. Spacelike hypersurfaces are endowed with a proper conformal structure, and timelike hypersurfaces are endowed with a conform…

The paper characterizes timelike rectifying curves in De Sitter 3-space.

Study null energy condition impacts on special hypersurfaces in static spacetimes.

New method finds closed timelike geodesics on Lorentzian manifolds.

We study the Cauchy problem for the wave equation on extreme Kerr backgrounds under axisymmetry. Specifically, we consider regular axisymmetric initial data prescribed on a Cauchy hypersurface S which connects the future event horizon with spacelike or null infinity, and we solve the linear wave equation on the domain …

Study timelike meridian surfaces in Minkowski 4-space with specific properties.

In [8] Gerhardt proves longtime existence for the inverse mean curvature flow in globally hyperbolic Lorentzian manifolds with compact Cauchy hypersurface, which satisfy three main structural assumptions: a strong volume decay condition, a mean curvature barrier condition and the timelike convergence condition. Further…

In this paper, we generalize the defining equation for de Sitter space by replacing the de Sitter radius with a function $f$ satisfying certain conditions; each resulting hypersurface is diffeomorphic to de Sitter space, and has a geometry (and causal character) which is controlled by the choice of $f$. Necessary and s…

Unified framework for photon and massive particle hypersurfaces in stationary spacetimes.

The study classifies timelike meridian surfaces in Minkowski 4-space.

Proves properties of maximal hypersurfaces in specific spacetimes.

We study constant mean curvature spacelike hypersurfaces and in particular maximal hypersurfaces immersed in pp-wave spacetimes satisfying the timelike convergence condition. We prove the non-existence of compact spacelike hypersurfaces whose constant mean curvature is non-zero and also that every compact maximal hyper…

We develop area and volume comparison theorems for the evolution of spacelike, acausal, causally complete hypersurfaces in Lorentzian manifolds, where one has a lower bound on the Ricci tensor along timelike curves, and an upper bound on the mean curvature of the hypersurface. Using these results, we give a new proof o…

Study of curvature flow in Minkowski space converging to a hyperboloid.

The paper proves conditions for zero Gaussian curvature convex hypersurfaces to be hyperplanes.

New loops found in universe's timeline, challenging traditional time direction.

In this letter, two explicit self-similar solutions to a graph representation of time-like extremal hypersurfaces in Minkowski spacetime $\mathbb{R}^{1+3}$ are given. Meanwhile, there is an untable eigenvalue in the linearized time-like extremal hypersurfaces equation around two explicit self-similar solutions.

Constructs solutions of Einstein equations for black holes gluing along timelike geodesics.

Assuming minimal regularity assumptions on the data, we revisit the classical problem of finding isometric immersions into the Minkowski spacetime for hypersurfaces of a Lorentzian manifold. Our approach encompasses metrics having Sobolev regularity and Riemann curvature defined in the distributional sense, only. It ap…

In this paper, we prove that Euclidean hypersurfaces with almost extremal extrinsic radius or $λ_1$ have a spectrum that asymptotically contains the spectrum of the extremal sphere in the Reilly or Hasanis-Koutroufiotis Inequalities. We also consider almost extremal hypersurfaces which satisfy a supplementary bound on …

Study of spacetimes in cosmology without symmetry assumptions.

The Sagnac effect is re-examined using Finslerian geometry.

The paper studies extremal hypersurfaces in ellipsoids using centro-affine geometry.

We study the geometry of stable maximal hypersurfaces in a variety of spacetimes satisfying various physically relevant curvature assumptions, for instance the Timelike Convergence Condition (TCC). We characterize stability when the target space has constant sectional curvature as well as give sufficient conditions on …

We study the motion of an $n$-dimensional closed spacelike hypersurface in a Lorentzian manifold in the direction of its past directed normal vector, where the speed equals a positive power $p$ of the mean curvature. We prove that for any $p\in (0,1]$, the flow exists for all time when the Ricci tensor of the ambient s…

Study proves inequality for hypersurfaces and shows almost extremals are close to Wulff shape.

The study characterizes canal hypersurfaces formed by non-null curves with parallel frame in Minkowski space-time.

This paper looks at the splitting problem for globally hyperbolic spacetimes with timelike Ricci curvature bounded below containing a (spacelike, acausal, future causally complete) hypersurface with mean curvature bounded from above. For such spacetimes we show a splitting theorem under the assumption of either the exi…

The study examines spacelike foliations on Lorentz manifolds under specific conditions.

Given a Riemannian manifold M and a hypersurface H in M, it is well known that infinitesimal convexity on a neighborhood of a point in H implies local convexity. We show in this note that the same result holds in a semi-Riemannian manifold. We make some remarks for the case when only timelike, null or spacelike geodesi…

Recently, folk questions on the smoothability of Cauchy hypersurfaces and time functions of a globally hyperbolic spacetime M, have been solved. Here we give further results, applicable to several problems: (1) Any compact spacelike acausal submanifold H with boundary can be extended to a spacelike Cauchy hypersurface …

A world sheet in anti-de Sitter space is a timelike submanifold consisting of a one-parameter family of spacelike submanifolds. We consider the family of lightlike hypersurfaces along spacelike submanifolds in the world sheet. The locus of the singularities of lightlike hypersurfaces along spacelike submanifolds forms …

Study classifies hypersurfaces in 4D Lorentz-Minkowski space using specific operators.

A singularity theorem based on asymptotic volume growth

New maximal surfaces solve Bernstein problems.

Study calculates spectra of minimal hypersurfaces in hyperbolic space.

In the present paper we consider a special class of Lorentz surfaces in the four-dimensional pseudo-Euclidean space with neutral metric which are one-parameter systems of meridians of rotational hypersurfaces with timelike or spacelike axis and call them meridian surfaces. We give the complete classification of minimal…

Extremal Kähler submanifolds of complex projective spaces have natural extensions.

Inspired by the results in a recent paper by G. Galloway and C. Vega (see arXiv:1712.00785), we investigate a number of geometric consequences of the existence of a timelike conformal Killing vector field on a globally hyperbolic spacetime with compact Cauchy hypersurfaces, especially in connection with the so-called B…

We establish volume comparison results for balls in Riemannian manifolds with $C^{1,1}$-metrics with a lower bound on the Ricci tensor and for the evolution of spacelike, acausal, causally complete hypersurfaces with an upper bound on the mean curvature in spacetimes with $C^{1,1}$-metrics with a lower bound on the tim…

Characterizes spacetimes using doubly torqued vectors.